BERND KISTENMACHER

Monday, September 25, 2017

The german KEYS Magazine has recently published a "Synthesizer Special". Beside a lot of tech Talk, you will also find interviews with Depecke Mode, Jean-Michel Jarre, Ströme and Bernd Kistenmacher.
Please follow this "Link" to ckeck out more details.

Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Chuck Van Zyl has published a beautiful review of DISINTEGRATION on "starsend.org" website.

Please read here:

Knowledge alone is flat and lifeless, but may become meaningful through the accumulation of experience over time. Bernd Kistenmacher will tell you that this path to knowing is long, and permits no shortcuts. His album Disintegration (62'46")
offers eight electronic listening studies, informed by his decades long
involvement in Spacemusic. Each piece exhibits a distinctive mood and
atmosphere which keeps us well within a chilled space throughout this
journey. Rhythms and slow beats do emerge in a few places, but the
overall feel of Disintegration is that of contemplation. Beneath
changeless constellations synthesizer strings build out and hold, as
bass laden drones bulge with portent. Then later, like a spark in the
open air, glittering modulations spray and dapple their sonic particles
in echoing trails. The wheels are stilled, leaving room for the rushing
of metal drones and slowed adagio synths. The ambiance softens, as the
delicate lilt of an ascending voice reaches us from out of a diffuse
celestial realm. Bernd Kistenmacher has learned how to
reprogram his own mind. He forges together the vocabularies of
technology and art, memory and music, literature and mathematics,
electronics and emotion in his search for the perfect language - a
cognitive language in which he can truly think. A language that is more
expressive than anything we have before encountered. Waiting for a sign
in the sky, or a word from the stars, Kistenmacher has taken the way of
the thinker - and never loses sight of the cosmic wonders he is trying
to capture, or of the nebulous mysteries his audience is trying to
fathom. Disintegration can be as warm as the sun on the skin, or
just as easily become like the dark light holding grinding galaxies. An
exploration of sound mass, where the collective textures of instruments
are treated as one single entity, his music breaks out with forlorn
voltage.
- Chuck van Zyl/STAR'S END 13 July 2017

Friday, April 7, 2017

DISINTEGRATION, the new album from Bernd
Kistenmacher is now available as download on Bandcamp. The production of
the CD has started and this album will be available for sale on april 22nd during bernd Kistenmacher's show in Hamburg. Check it out here: https://berndkistenmacher.bandcamp.com/…/disintegration-2017